taking this as an opportunity to yap about a loz/lu oc of mine I haven’t drawn or written in a while…
I’m gonna be fully and completely honest her character concept started entirely because I was thinking about the fact that at the end of LU the entire chain is going to be split up and entirely cut off from each other which. Might not go so well for some of them and also I’m a sucker for reunions.
as such her entire gimmick is her ability to create (youll never guess it) portals. But of course it’s not that easy because it’s me and I can’t be nice to my ocs so she’s not powerful enough to connect her own Hyrule to other points of the timeline. For five. Years. She comes at the very end of the timeline, past even Wild, which would make her the last Link if I didn’t have multiple sets of oc’s (but we’re not gonna talk about Star right now)
but we’re ignoring that bit for now that’s not even the most interesting part of her story because her portals, when she first gained access to them, had to connect her to something
Her name is Link. We knew that part. Her hero title is the Hero of Dimensions. Yknow in case that gives you any hint to where the portals go. She’s trans. Shes deaf. She’s a lot of things. Most importantly, she’s the one who drew the master sword.
on her two adventures she ends up saving not one Hyrule, not two, but three separate Hyrules. This is done with the help of two other versions of herself. To differentiate between the three of them, they call her Rivulet, and she calls them Coast and Oasis (their nicknames have to do with where in Hyrule they grew up don’t question it). Their first adventure (at age 16) faces them against a fire-powered sorceress who kidnaps all three of their Zeldas (Stream, Shore, Haven) with the goal to marry at least one of them.
and so yknow fire is. Bad for people. After the final battle all six of them have burns in various places on their bodies— the worst of which fall on Stream, Coast, and most notably Oasis. Stream loses all ability to see out of her right eye. Coast’s throat is burned badly enough to damage her voice.
Oasis comes very, very close to dying.
so yeah obviously this is very traumatizing for everyone involved and Rivulet takes it really badly
so when the very same sorceress rises from the dead not even a year later, this time backed by none other than Ganon, Rivulet rises to the call again. This time, completely and utterly alone. Coast and Oasis don’t have the same abilities as Dime does, so when they realize what she’s trying to do, their only chance of stopping her or helping her is to somehow catch up to her while she’s traversing their version of hyrule and somehow convincing her to let them help her.
which doesnt happen by the way.
instead, Rivulet runs herself ragged, barely eats, barely sleeps, for months, until she finally finds and frees the Zeldas, kills the sorceress a second time, and defeats ganon.
you’d think that’s the end of it and I’ve put her through enough but you’d be wrong.
because then. Then she goes to Hyrule Warriors.
And you’ll never fucking guess who manages to show up. Again. And that goes badly because of course it does. And yknow… I headcanon post-lu post-hw Tune with a peg leg. that happens because of this fight.
to make things even worse for Rivulet, now known as Dime or Dimension, when she returns to her own world she finds that the time hasnt even passed the same. As opposed to the five years she spent fighting in hw, her own world has barely even experienced a year. She experienced going to war at eighteen years old and coming back twenty-three, to a world that thinks she’s nineteen. To make it even worse (because yes, I can make it worse still) she shows up back in her own world in the middle of her funeral. She appears standing in front of an empty casket made for her.
and ooooh if that didn’t do things to her mental health. By this point Rivulet is doing bad, to say the least. But she recovers. Slowly. She proposes to Stream. She tried to be happy living in her home.
The chain shows up on her front door.
insert LU events and things go bad for Rivulet but yknow what it could be worse blah blah blah couple years later it ends. Again.
which is what eventually leads us back to her original character concept. Five years of trial and error and an unfortunate amount of insomnia-driven escapades leads her to finally, finally, achieving the thing she’s been working on for years.
and the chain gets to see each other again.
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